I am writing to invite
you to participate to the above conference, which will be held in
English on May 17 and 18 at the University of Rouen, France (1h from
Paris where the final event will be
held on Friday evening). The conference is organised as
part of the "Challenge" Integrated Project of the European Commission by the
University of Rouen, the French National Institute for Scientific Research
(CNRS) and the University of Caen.
The purpose of this
conference is to explore in some depth the issues that
surround this major contemporary theme. In particular, we would hope that
the conference will contribute to the sociological analysis and
critique of links between insecurity and otherness that are prevented as
"obvious" and produce insight on the relationship between current
socioeconomic conditions, the constitution of Others and the threats that such
Others are associated with. The opening keynote lecture will be given by Robert
Castel and the closing address by Jacques Donzelot.
I attach a document which
presents the rationale and the themes of the conference and I strongly hope
that this will interest you and that you will be available to come and possibly
give a talk. I would be obliged if you could reply by e-mail at you earliest
convenience. I am looking forward to your response.
Yours
sincerely,
Michalis
Lianos
PS: Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues whose work
you find interesting and relevant to the subject of the conference.
____________________________
Professor
University of
Rouen
Innovation and Society Research Centre
Department of
Sociology
University of Rouen
Rue Lavoisier
76821 Mont Saint-Aignan
cedex
France
+33 6
988 00 125
Associated Researcher:
Laboratoire d'Analyse Secondaire et de
Methodes Appliquees a la Sociologie - Institut du Longitudinal
(LASMAS-IdL)
/ Centre Maurice Halbwachs
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-EHESS
; Ecole normale superieure de Paris-ENS ; Centre
National de Recherche
Scientifique-CNRS ; Institut de Recherche sur les Societes Contemporaines-IRESCO
;
Universite de Caen.
http://www.cmh.ens.fr/
Centre d'Etude des Techniques des Connaissances et des Pratiques
(CETCOPRA)
Sorbonne (Universite Paris I)
Co-director
European Observatory on Liberty and Security
(EOLS)
"Challenge" EC Integrated Project
Centre d’Etudes et des Recherches
Internationales
Sciences Po – Paris
http://www.libertysecurity.org/
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
FHSS
University of Portsmouth,
UK
+44 709 227 41 20